Joelle Taylor Showcase
Join Joelle Taylor on International Women's Day for an evening showcasing poetry from some of the UK’s best female writers. Hosted and headlined by Joelle, the evening features performances from: the Edinburgh Makar, Hannah Lavery; Forward Prize-nominated poet Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa; and TS Eliot Prize nominee Fran Lock. More about the artists:Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright. She was appointed Edinburgh Makar (or city poet) in 2021. Her debut collection, Blood Salt Spring was shortlisted for the 2022 Saltire Scottish National Poetry Book Award. The Drift, her autobiographical lyric play toured with the National Theatre of Scotland, and is to be adapted as a radio drama for BBC Radio 4. Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa is a British born Barbadian raised poet, dancer, choreographer and researcher. She is an Obsidian Foundation fellow, Apples & Snakes/Jerwood Arts Poetry in Performance recipient and currently studying for a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. Her first collection Cane, Corn & Gully was shortlisted for the Rathbones Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Fran Lock Ph.D. is the author of numerous chapbooks and ten poetry collections. Her most recent Hyena! is shortlisted for the 2023 TS Eliot Prize. She is the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University, an Associate Editor at Culture Matters, and a member of the new Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.
8:00 - 9:45 pm I Friday 8th I Studio 2 I £8
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Small Press ShowcaseArtfulScribe invites two of the UK’s most exciting small presses to present award-winning writers and performers from their roster at MAST Studios, for a stacked bill of live-literary goodness.
Seren, Wales’ leading independent literary publisher and VERVE Poetry Press, a Birmingham-based poetry indie, will exhibit innovative poets and poetry at the Small Press Showcase on Saturday 9th March. These readings will feature Rachael Clyne, Vanessa Lampert, Taz Rahman and Elizabeth Parker from Seren, and Jemima Hughes, Tim Tim Cheng, Erica Gillingham and Ellora Sutton from VERVE Poetry Press. All performers will be reading from their most recent publications - this is THE event to catch the sharpest poetry written in the UK, supported by presses who are breaking the boundaries of literature and spoken word whilst advocating for intersectional voices.
4:00 - 6:00 pm I Saturday 9th I Studio 3 I £8
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Modern Poetry in Translation Showcase
Modern Poetry in Translation brings together the best new poetry, essays and reviews from around the world. Aiming to give voice to the silenced, exiled and excluded, MPT represents a diverse and creative community of translators, poets and readers.
Harriet Truscott is a poet, translator and arts creator, currently living on the wind-swept Spanish Atlantic coast. She translates the work of Spanish-Mexican poet Concha Mendez, a friend of Lorca and Buñuel, whose transgressive life and moving poetry has been recently 'rediscovered' by readers. Harriet is currently working on a verse novel, inspired by historical events, which tells the story of a young Puritan woman's voyage from Lincolnshire to Massachusetts.
Adham Smart is a writer and translator from London, whose writing credits include the Rialto, And Other Poems, the Missing Slate, ISIS, and Poetry London. Adham's writing has also featured in The Cadaverine Anthology and The Salt Book of Younger Poets. He has contributed translations to Six Georgian Poets (Arc Publications). His debut collection, yes yes mouth, is published by Valley Press, and he is the translator of the Georgian novel All the World’s Mysteries by David Dephy.
1:00 - 2:00 pm I Sunday 10th I Studio 3 I FREE
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